It depends on how you use it. You could just have a page following different media guys for news, have a private account and only allow certain people to follow you, or go out there and talk to The People.

This is coming from someone who has 575 followers, and I don't even remember how I came to get to this point. But I've made several new real-life friends through it.

It is really hard to start and stick with, though. I will say that. So maybe if you stopped blogging you'd be more apt to trying it. Who knows. I've had a good experience with it so far.

You are suggesting that Allan stop blogging so he be on Twitter?? Stop his game analysis, stat questions, book reviews, anti-media rants, road trip memories, and game wraps to post 140-character tweets?

I don't use it or follow anyone on Twitter. Maybe it's interesting, but Facebook is all I need in that category.

Even with FB, I don't really get how people can spend hours and hours on it. I check out friends' updates, only occasionally read articles recommended, block every application that touches me...it's 20 minutes a day, tops. If I post an update, I try to make it informative or funny or whacked out or something.

I think the only way I can describe it, or perhaps the way I use it is an ongoing game thread on all things life, or whatever you want it to be. I saw some parallels between Twitter and JoS game threads, obviously during sporting events.

I can't wait to turn on NESN tonight and watch the Red Sox. I'll feel even more excited when NESN shows its first ST game against a major league team.

That made me laugh.. if only the whole season was played against college teams.. Love the confidence though and great start. I personally wouldn't care if we beat a little league team.. it's still 15- zip right!

"You received this e-mail because we were unable to process the automatic renewal of your MLB.TV subscription using the credit or debit card presently on file for your account. ... Though payment on your subscription is past due, as a courtesy, we will extend your access to MLB.TV through today, March 3."

How nice of them to remind me about an expired credit card on file less than 3 hours before I want to watch a game. But it appears I'll have access.

I hate hate hate applications and games. I wish there could be a portal that would take you to an entire games/apps section on Facebook and keep the updates & such on Facebook's main page. Segregate them.

Now that I have this brand new, shiny netbook I'm sort of tossing the idea in my mind of getting MLB.tv. The uh, "third party" streaming video sites were heavily cracked down upon towards the end of last season.

I like twitter for some things, but I'm not sure I'd want to use it for gamethreading. Do you do it using hashtags? How do you keep the riffraff out (as if that would keep me in), since anyone can throw down with a hashtag?

Man, I wish MLB was a little more fan friendly. With the NBA, I payed something like 160 and got the TV package, which includes every game not on TV (no blacked out weekend games!) and also includes the broadband package, which allows you to chose your broadcast + DVR games for no extra fee. For MLB, that's twice as much. I guess there are twice as many games...

remy expressing his ignorance about the red sox's plan for the 2010 team (emphasis on strong fielding) and making fun of it. i like you, jerry, but why do you want to make yourself sound like a total clueless moron?

Stand corrected re: the bobbledesk, that is. I'm still not sure Remy (or anyone else for that matter) could tell you what constitutes a good fielding percentage for, say, a third baseman, of the top of his or her head.

I'm reading a Jayson Stark article on SI.com about the Braves. Did you know that Billy Wagner is naturally right-handed? I guess he broke his right arm a couple times when he was very young and just started throwing with his left.

According to Tim Kurjian, Mark Mulder does everything above his waist left handed, and everything below right handed. So he pitches left, fires a gun left, but bowls right and dribbles a basketball right. Now here is where it gets weird; he usually writes with his right hand, unless he's writing on a whiteboard or something, which he does with his left. Despite the fact that he's a lefty pitcher, when he pitches a softball, he uses his right.

Why do these preseason games look the same as the Little League games that NESN sometimes shows during the regular season? Both broadcasts look more natural to me, warmer--compared to the regular season Red Sox games which have a more metallic, colder look to them.